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🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Corbinism, the post-mortem, is kindly sponsored by the Media Masters podcast, a series of one-to-one |
0:06.1 | interviews with the very biggest media names, hosted by Paul Blanchard. You can tune in any time at |
0:11.7 | Mediamasters.fm.m. And now, here's the show. This is obviously a very disappointing night |
0:19.0 | for the Labour Party. I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. |
0:28.6 | I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result |
0:36.6 | and on the policies that the party will take going forward. |
0:43.5 | It's not Corbynism. There is no such thing as Corbynism. |
0:49.3 | Jeremy Corbyn's torrid relationship with the backbench MPs of the Parliamentary Labour Party |
0:54.4 | culminated in a vote of no confidence in 2016, which he lost by an astonishing margin of |
1:00.2 | 197 to 40 votes. Despite losing a confidence vote, Corbyn fought the Labour Party machine to stay |
1:07.0 | on the leadership ballot as an incumbent and was returned to office by a 61% majority, |
1:12.4 | dashing the PLP's hopes of a change of direction. The Labour Party's narrow defeat in the 2017 election |
1:18.7 | solidified Corbyn's position and effectively pacified much of the dissent emanating from his own |
1:23.8 | benches until a handful of MPs resigned or defected to other parties over Brexit |
1:28.8 | and anti-Semitism. But what of the dissenting MPs who stayed? And what does the future hold for a |
1:34.2 | party that remains firmly shaped in Jeremy Corbyn's image following its humiliating electoral loss in 2019? |
1:41.0 | Hello and welcome to Corbinism the post-mortem, with me, your host, Oz Catterjee. |
1:45.5 | Joining me on this episode to discuss Brexit, anti-Semitism, backbench descent and the future |
1:51.2 | of the Labour Party is the Labour MP for Waltham Stowe's Stellocrecy. |
1:55.6 | We are now at the halfway point in this limited series as we start to approach the closing |
2:00.1 | stages of the Labour |
2:01.2 | Leadership election and we begin to see what direction the party takes into the new decade. |
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